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Tuesday, October 2, 2018

VARIATIONS ON A THEME; POST PROCESSING DIGITAL FILES

I’ve been revisiting my archives back to my early digital files, some as far back as 2000, when I got my first digital camera. What’s nice to see is that those old CD’s (Yes, CD’s!) can still be opened on our new computers and loaded into Photoshop!

I can open these old JPEGs in Camera Raw and do my favorite tweaks I do today with my new DSLR’s RAW files. After that I go to my favorite plug-ins for some artistic interpretations.

Here’s a finished artistic version of a file from 2003…

This image was form my second digital camera—the Fuji FinePix S-2 Pro, which produced jpegs at around 4.0 MB. Not much by todays standards, but we managed, with careful exposes, to produce some outstanding 30x40 images from our S2’s back then.

NOTE:In addition to the obvious artistic changes to the original file a side benefit of processing an image in NIK’s HDR is that the size of the file is increased a lot.With this image the original file was increased from 3.69MB to 6.06MBs.

However, I think that the Black and White rendition of this scene promotes the creepy vibe I imagined when I saw this building.What do you guys think—the color or the Black and White?

About Me

International award winning Master of Natural Light Portraiture.
Forty years ago I was creating images of man made and natural things, making my own B&W and color fine art prints and entering them in local and national competitions. But, it was'nt until I married Kathi and we had our two sons that I found my true calling: Portraits of people in special moments that force them to really LOOK from a point of view that screams--stop, take notice, before this changes or is no more!
Because life changes so fast, especially in our children, I see it as my mission, to use my art form, to slow it down--to pause the many poignant, beautiful moments in life so we can all STOP and MARVEL at creation!